Eat your hearts out, Barbie and Ken. The best-dressed couple in dolldom is Celeste and Babar, who have acquired a custom-made wardrobe by 27 top French designers. The collection-from Celeste's flouncy ...

Laurent de Brunhoff, a French artist who nurtured his father's creation, a beloved, very Gallic and very civilized elephant named Babar, for nearly seven decades -- sending him, among other places, ...

De Brunhoff's popular pachyderm is back in a pair of paper-over-board books written by Ellen Weiss. Celeste's children scramble to find the perfect presents for her in Babar: A Gift for Mother, with ...

Animated adventure, adapted from stories by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff, in which the king defends Elephantland from marauding rhinos. Voices...Adult Babar: Gordon Pinsent. Boy Babar: Gavin Magrath.

More Babar Abrams is reissuing a quartet of Babar titles by Laurent de Brunhoff, son of Babar creator Jean de Brunhoff. First published in 1970, Babar's Birthday Surprise chronicles the attempts of ...

Few children’s books have been as successful immediately upon publication as Histoire de Babar, published first in France in 1931 and then two years later as The Story of Babar in the U.S., complete ...

On the society page of the New York Herald Tribune one day last week appeared the following item: “Mr. and Mrs. Debar de Brunhoff, of Paris, announce the birth of triplets, Pom, Flore and Alexandre, ...

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When French author and illustrator Jean de Brunhoff died of tuberculosis at the age of 37, it looked as though one of the best loved characters in children's literature—Babar the elephant—would die ...